The current literature on AI-advised decision making -- involving explainable AI systems advising human decision makers -- presents a series of inconclusive and confounding results. To synthesize these findings, we propose a simple theory that elucidates the frequent failure of AI explanations to engender appropriate reliance and complementary decision making performance. We argue explanations are only useful to the extent that they allow a human decision maker to verify the correctness of an AI's prediction, in contrast to other desiderata, e.g., interpretability or spelling out the AI's reasoning process. Prior studies find in many decision making contexts AI explanations do not facilitate such verification. Moreover, most contexts fundamentally do not allow verification, regardless of explanation method. We conclude with a discussion of potential approaches for more effective explainable AI-advised decision making and human-AI collaboration.

本文聚焦AI辅助决策，在AI解释人类决策过程中频繁失败的背景下，提出了一个简单的理论，即解释只有在允许决策者验证其正确性时才有用，我们讨论了更有效的AI决策解释方法和人工智能-人类决策的协作。

寻求可验证性：解释很少能够在AI辅助的决策判断中提供补充性的表现